"What does it mean to be alive except to court disaster and suffering at every moment?"

Tibet: Carnivals? Ligotti: Ceremonies for initiating children into the cult of the sinister.Tibet: Gas stations?Ligotti: Nothing to say about gas stations as such, although I've always responded to the smell of gasoline as if it were a kind of perfume.

In fact, this is a true urban legend, that hamburgers are made of worms, and although some experts have already refuted it, you know me, Thomas The Apostle, unless I see the processed meat that make these hamburgers with my own eyes, I still believe this urban legend might be true. However, if their basic ingredient is worms, wow, they are delicious.

Funnily enough, the reason why I refuse to read the books of Jonathan Carroll is because halfway through Voice of the Shadow (the first Carroll book I picked up) two of the main characters go to eat dessert at McDonalds. McDonald's! Sorry no, I can't tolerate that. Total ban on Carroll's works from that moment!

The unreasonable prejudices of readers can sometimes be as beautiful as the whipping of a samovar.